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Dracula

‘Yes, it is a child, but who brought it here? And is it
wounded?’
‘We shall see,’ said the Professor, and with one impulse
we took our way out of the churchyard, he carrying the

sleeping child.
When we had got some little distance away, we went
into a clump of trees, and struck a match, and looked at
the child’s throat. It was without a scratch or scar of any
kind.
‘Was I right?’ I asked triumphantly.
‘We were just in time,’ said the Professor thankfully.
We had now to decide what we were to do with the
child, and so consulted about it. If we were to take it to a
police station we should have to give some account of our
movements during the night. At least, we should have had
to make some statement as to how we had come to find
the child. So finally we decided that we would take it to
the Heath, and when we heard a policeman coming,
would leave it where he could not fail to find it. We
would then seek our way home as quickly as we could. All
fell out well. At the edge of Hampstead Heath we heard a
policeman’s heavy tramp, and laying the child on the
pathway, we waited and watched until he saw it as he
flashed his lantern to and fro. We heard his exclamation of

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